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  Description 'As  delicious and comforting  as a freshly baked sponge. A most, heartwarming story and delightful debut' Ruth Jones, bestselling author of  Love Untold 'An  absolute delight.  A lovely novel full of  warmth, courage and heart , Jenny Quinn is a heroine you’ll cheer for every step of the way' A J Pearce, bestselling author of  Dear Mrs Bird ‘Calling all  Great British Baking Show  fans: this  charming  novel will fill the cake-shaped hole in your heart with the kind of  feel-good suspense  we love from the likes of Paul Hollywood ’   Good Housekeeping ---- Mrs Quinn is the unlikely star of Britain's favourite baking show, but could her newfound stardom cause her biggest secret to unravel? Jennifer Quinn has a secret. Her love of baking has just won her a spot as a contestant on a primetime TV show. It's only the second time in fifty-nine years that she's kept something from her beloved husband Bern...

  Description 'Full of Sara Cox's natural warmth and wit'  PRIMA 'Relatable, observant and funny'  WOMAN & HOME Josie's life is fine. Absolutely, completely fine. Nice husband, brilliant best friend, a gorgeous kid at uni. The big house of her dreams on its leafy London street is a lifetime away from the Lancashire farm of her childhood. So what if her mother is tricky, and James isn't in love with Josie any more, and maybe she's not in love with him either? It's great to have time to herself now Chloe's flown the nest . . . isn't it? This is the life Josie never believed possible. The life she needed when her heart was breaking as a child, when her mum wasn't coping and Josie had to grow up too fast. So why this feeling, nibbling away at the edges of Josie's thoughts? The sense that she has lost something. That she has lost herself. If Josie is to truly live, she must now take back the reins and confront her future. And to find h...

  Description 'Unputdownable, breathtakingly original'  ERIN KELLY ' Delicious'  i-D Magazine ' Salivatingly well-written'  RENA MATSUI The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation’s imagination but Kajii refuses to speak with the press, entertaining no visitors. That is, until journalist Rika Machida writes a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew and Kajii can’t resist writing back. Rika, the only woman in her news office, works late each night, rarely cooking more than ramen. As the visits unfold between her and the steely Kajii, they are closer to a masterclass in food ...

  Description The teachers thought they knew her. They were wrong... 'Must read'  Bella 'A brilliant thriller'  Closer 'Gripping and powerful!'  Lauren North 'An addictive page-turner'  Samantha Tonge 'School run revenge at its best'  Jacqueline Ward 'The end was a triumph, absolutely brilliant!'  Rona Halsall When single mum Ruth has a brief fling with Rob, she's mortified to discover that he lied to her. He lied to her, because he's married. Worse still, he's the husband of Janine, head of the PTA at the primary school where Ruth works as secretary, and when the truth of their fling is discovered, Ruth suddenly has a lot of enemies at the school gates. Threatening texts begin to arrive, rumours abound and the staff room becomes hostile. But when it also starts to affect her son, a student at the school, Ruth realises you can do anything if you convince yourself it's for the sake of your child. Even murder. A page-turning...

Description The instant  Sunday Times  Bestseller from the author of  The Flatshare 'Read this! Absolutely loved it!' Christina Lauren 'This book is perfect' Rosie Walsh ' Beth is quite rightly earning her title as "Queen of Uplit"'  Prima Addie and her sister are on an epic road trip to a friend's wedding in rural Scotland. But, not long after setting off, a car slams into theirs. The driver is none other than Addie's ex, who she hasn't seen since their traumatic break-up two years earlier. Dylan and his best mate are heading to the wedding too, so Addie has no choice but to offer them a ride. And with four hundred miles to go, they can't avoid confronting the very messy history of their relationship . . . Will they make it to the wedding? And, more importantly, is this really the end of the road for Addie and Dylan? Review This book was not what I was expecting based on the two previous books I have read by this author. Nearly a DNF. ...

  Description What if you could write your own perfect storyline...? The heartwarming, feelgood novel from the much-loved  Sunday Times  bestselling author, Milly Johnson Polly Potter is surviving, not thriving. She used to love her job as a business consultant, turning around businesses that were on their uppers – until her mentor died and her new boss decided to make her life hell. She used to love her partner Chris – until he cheated on her, and now she can’t forget. The only place where her life is working is on the pages of the novel she is writing – there she can recreate herself as a feistier, bolder, more successful version of herself – as the fictional Sabrina Anderson. But what if it was possible to start over again? To leave everything behind, forget all that went before, and live the life you’d always dreamed of? That’s how Polly finds herself as Sabrina, living at the heart of a noisy Italian family restaurant by the sea. Run by Teddy, the charming son of her...

  Description A BBC,  Financial  Times and  Cosmopolitan  What to Read in 2024 pick Set in a New York apartment building,  Fourteen Days  is an irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of neighbours has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Emma Donoghue and Celeste Ng. One week into lockdown, the tenants of a run-down apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbours gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants – some of whom have barely spoken to each other before now – become real neighbours. A dazzling, heartwarming and ultimately surprising narrative,  Fourteen Days  is an ode to the power of storytelling and human connection. Includes writing from : Charlie Jane Anders, Margaret A...